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Monday, 31 March 2014

Hesarubele Kosambari—Ugadi Recipes

Kosambari is a popular Karnataka dish. Hesarubele Kosambari is nothing but Moong Dal Salad. Moong dal is very easy to digest. This Kosambari is nutritious, It helps digestion and is good for constipation. You can have 1 bowl of this salad as your breakfast also.It is a traditional dish or salad which is prepared on festival days and is served as a part of the meal.It is a raw, refreshing and cooling salad dish and is very easy to prepare. There are many variations in the preparation of kosambari. I am going to present you the basic kosambari dish. You can add grated carrot also.

PrepTime:10 mins |Soaking Time for dal:2 hrs

Cuisine : Indian,Karnataka Recipes

Ingredients

Quantity

Spilt yellow moong dal

½ cup

Cucumber

1 large cucumber

Salt

as per taste

Green chillies

1-2 nos (finely chopped)

Grated coconut

3 tbsp(purely optional)

Lemonjuice

from 1 lemon

Cilantro

few sprigs

Method

1. Soak spilt yellow moong dalfor 2 hours.Drain the lentils and transfer to serving bowl.2. Now add chopped cucumber pieces ,green chillies, grated coconut, salt, lemon juice and coriander leaves and mix well.3. Add salt just before serving the dish to avoid water oozing from cucumber.Tasty and a healthy salad is ready within minutes.Enjoy your festival.HAPPY UGADI TO ALL MY FRIENDS AND RELATIVES……..

Notes

Some of them like to do seasonings.You can go for it without hestitation.Temper with some mustard seeds,Curry leaves and dry red chillies.